So it’s goodbye Cornelissens hello Halfords. Laura Gascoigne parks her brush and tries

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to follow the instructions for flatpack art, but has the picture upside down It’s a dull job being a customs officer, sitting on the border twiddling your thumbs until

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nginx/1.17.10 the next teenage nginx/1.17.10 drugs mule comes along. So it must have added to the gaiety of nations […]

Things have gone rather quiet on the mortality front since queues stretched around the White Cube block in Mason’s Yard for

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nginx/1.17.10 a sight of Damien Hirst’s £50m sculpture For the Love of God. In those days of skulls and diamonds, Paul Wilks wrote a letter to The Jackdaw lamenting the morbidity of contemporary art, wondering

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why two horrific world wars […]

The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part

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nginx/1.17.10 of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was so indeed,

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but not exactly in the terms the article intends. Here […]

… when branding and art formed a marriage of convenience, argues artist John Kelly. 1988 is the seminal year, the

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nginx/1.17.10 year that our concepts of art, money and values changed irredeemably. It was the year I came to London as a 23-year-old artist, having taken an opportunity to play league cricket in London. It

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was a chance for a young […]